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TOY TARGET.

Patented Dec. 19, 1882.

INVENTOR ATT RN BY.

WITNESSES: 6M.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES M. GRANDALL, OF MONTROSE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO FRED W.GRANDALL AND BENJN. L. BALDWIN, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

TOY TARG ET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,266, dated December19, 1882.

Application filed July 25,1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES M. ORANDALL, of Mont-rose, Susquehannacounty, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Toy Targets; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being hadto the accompanying sheet of drawings, making part of thisspecification.

This invention is in the nature of an improvement intoy targets; and theinvention consists in a target, in combination with an elastic strip orstring, an armed dart, and a cord-clamping device, as is moreparticularly described and claimed hereinafter.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view oftarget, elastic, and dart; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section of same; Fig.3, an elevation of rear of target, showing clamp and manner of fasteningelastic; Fig. 4, a detail view, showing dart.

Similarletters of referenceindicatelike parts in the several figures.

A represents the target, made from wood or other suitable material,which may be ofany desired size, and ornamented with the usualconcentric rings and bulls-eye, a.

Passing through the center of the bulls-cye a, and securely fixed, isone end of an elastic strip or string, B, of india-rubber. The other endof this elastic string is secured to a dart, G. This dart may be made ofwood, its front end being armed with a needle-point, b, and

its rear end provided with feathers or worsted filaments c to guide thedart in its flight.

Now, when my toy is constructed substantiallyas described, and whenusing it, it is simply necessary to hold the dart 0 between the fingersand draw it back from the target until the elastic string B is stretchedto some extent, when by letting go the dart the elastic string, inrecovering its normal state, will cause the dart G to fly from thefingers to the target, it being guided in its [light by the feathers orworsted filaments c, and in this way the dart can be made to fly withmore or less accuracy (depending upon the skill of the player) until thebulls-eye a is struck. Whenever the dart strikes the target theneedle-point'enters into it and-fixes the dart to the target, leaving a0 mark indicating the place where the dart had struck.

The elastic string B may be of any desired length; but in order toregulate its length to correspond with the length of the room in whichthe toy is used a small clamp, 61, is fixed to the rear of the target,to which the elastic can be clamped after it has been drawn through ahole in the bulls-eye a, in this way regulating the length of theelastic to any desired extent.

The clamp cl may be, and on the score of economy preferably is, a smalldisk, of sheet metal, with its rim flared outwardly, and having more orless resilience, so that ,the cord may be in- 6 serted between the saiddisk and the back of the target, and be held there by the spring orclamp action of the disk. This disk may be arranged a little to one sideof the cord hole, above or below indift'erently.

Instead of painting the concentric rings on the face of the target, therings may be lithographed or printed on paper and the paper attached tothe target, so that after one paper has become defaced by the repeatedmarkings 7 of the dart a new one can be supplied.

The targetcan be placed upon a table or in any suitable position foruse, and it may or not be provided with supporting-feet c.

Having now described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-.

A toy target composed of the. target proper,

A, an elastic cord passing through the bullseye in said-target, aclamping device on the 8 back of said target to engage and hold the cordat any adjustment thereof, and an armed dart attached to and carried bysaid cord, substantially as shown and described.

CHARLES M. ORANDALL. Witnesses:

B. L. BALDWIN, F. W. CRANDALL.

